Hello everyone!
I am just wondering about starting a webhosting business like the fallowing questins:
How would I start out?
Where do I get bandwidth from?
How much does bandwidth cost?
How much does it cost for a oc3 line or which ever the best connection is.
Where are the best servers?
Is it easy to learn linux on a server?
(I am a total newbie at this.So if you could tell me it would be great thanks.)

I would check out one of the following sites.
www.rackshack.net
www.dathorn.com
www.fdcservers.net
www.hostparticle.com

The thing is I want to run my own.Not have someone else run it for me..

Hi Toxin,

Well for a starting web hosting company I would recommend a reseller account. You see these can start off cheap or the price can skyrocket, so the plans give you exactly what you need.

You set your company up with a reseller and as you get more clients the money comes rolling in. You should put some of these profits away, so you can later afford a dedicated server. This gives you a lot of space, and even more data transfer.

Toxin,

You can always browse the reseller and dedicated forums. Tons of info and issues regarding running a hosting business.

I suggest that you look at reselling first. Managing servers is not something you can pick up over night. That said, more specifically to your questions:

1. How would I start up?
As mentioned, start with a reseller plan. The benefits are that you do not have to worry about managing the servers as that's taken care of. You can also start off with lower costs (and thus lower risk). Lastly you can use the chance to really test out whether this is something you like to do (no sleep, high stress, extremely competitive market)

2. Where do I get bandwidth from?
As long as you are reselling, or even getting dedicated servers, you do not have to worry about this. They all come with bandwidth. Just make sure that it's multi-homed and not that the capacity isn't maxed

3. How much does bandwidth cost.?
If you are reselling, a GB can cost 1-1.50/GB. If you are getting a dedicated server, you may be able to get 400GB for 99 (this is however not the norm). If you want to colocate, it can range from 100-300 /mbit (300GB thereabouts)

4. How much does it cost for an OC3 line?
You are probably far from getting your on for quite some time.

5. Where are the best servers?
There's a few. But more importantly, ask yourself what are the service attributes you want to uphold, and correspondingly your budget. For example, Rackspace, Servint and more can be considered as extremely reliable. However they cost a lot more.

6 Is it easy to learn linux?
Good server administration? As easy as learning anything new from scratch (i.e not easy)

Well I have had a reseller account for sometime now.I really like how I am going with it.Its fun to do I like it.And I probably should get a book then?If so can you recommend a good book to read up on?

Well, if you can, set up linux at home on an unused box and practice on it :) It's free, it's educational, and best of all, you can destroy it and not pull out all your hair over losing your clients data.

The Craig Hunt Linux Library series from Sybex is pretty good. Check it out.